The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-01

The postponement Of = week is due
to the fact that the Manchester,
Newcastle, aud Liverpool Exhibi-
tons all open in the first week in
May, and the postponement secures
q tree field and additional complete
ness Of detail on the part Of the ex-
hibitors.
The Easter holidays are over, and
the weather is fine and warm. This
is to say that Mayfair is full, Hyde
Park is fuller. and Piccadilly is full
est From now on for the next four
months the season, and the season in
Jubilee Year is going to make Lon
don the gayest. brightest, and most
charming place on top OF the globe.
Apropos Of this, Society remarks:
=" 1t is now the third week in April,
and as yet there is no prominent can
didate Tor the much coveted post of
chief back scratcher to the Prince.
Mrs. Mackay has made no sign-nei'
Their for the matter OF that has the
Prince. MR. Brown Potter has
come, and seen. and comiorted her
self, as our" Powder Puff truly said
last week, in q manner which may be
put down as a conquest, or not, as
you may be pleased to read Man and
Wife. Miss Adele Grant is not
with us yet, and, in the absence Of
any new Yankee notion" and with
the failure to come to the " scratch"
of last years playthings. it seems
probable that unless Buffalo Bill has
likely squaw in his following,
Americanism as a royal pastime is
at an end"
The Princess of Wales spent East
err at Sandringham and superintendent
personally the decorations OF the
church. Some amusement was
caused while the finishing touches
we're being put to the harmonious
blending Of spring flowers, by the ar
rival at the porch Of a villager laden
with quite half sack of large pota-
toes. The man asked to see the
Princess, and her royal highness,
with her usual eOod nature, went out
to see what be wanted, when she was
promptly presented with the "houry
champions" the Norfolk yokel apol-
ogetically explaining that he hadn't
got any "Weggable marrers when the
young ladies asked for EN- in Sep
TENDER, 80 he had been savin' up the
'taters for Easter instead, and he
'oped as how her rile highness could
give 'em a good show on the poolpet,
meybe." The good man, it seems,
bad been canvassed by the young
princesses to contribute some Of his
garden stuff to the harvest decora-
tions in the autumn, and was 80
ashamed OF himself at being found
wanting, that he saved the best sam
pies Of his potato crop for Easter, in
happy ignorance of the non-edible
qualities Of vernal church millinery.
Some years ago Christine Nilsson ;,
whose recent marriage you remem-
Der, had the lines OF her hand exam
ined by palmist, who told her she
would have trouble from TWO causes,
fire and maniacs. This prediction
was verified, for during the Chicago
fire she lost $40, 600, and VIII On Bos-
ton was burned she lost 5000 900.
When at New York crazy man fol-
lowed her for a week, believing that
the words addressed by Marguerite
TO Faust were intended for himself.
In Chicago a poor student decided to
marry her, aud wrote passionate let
tiers, to which he received no answer.
One day he came in superb sleigh,
drawn by four horses, to take his
afiianced bride to the church. The
manager quoted him by saying, you
are late; Nine. Nilsson has gone
there to wait for you" The third
| insane person was her husband, M.
Rouzeaud, who died in an asylum.
1t is somewhat interesting to won
der what will happen to her latest
husband. Will he 90 mad or be
cremated, is the query? Atany rate,
he must be brave man.
Some fashionable young Paris
ienues have been combining merri-
ment and modification during Lent.
and have thus much scandalIzed
their father confessors. They have
held once week a SO called Dinner
of the Mourners. The ladies',
twelve in number, dressed in the
deepest mourning; the dining room
was hung in black; the table was OF
black wood; the chairs were black,
of silver ornamentations. The dishes
had design Of wreaths of immor
telles, death heads, aud cemetery
emblems; while the glasses in which
the champagne was served was made
in the form Of skulls. The footmen
who waited at table were dressed
like undertakers. During dinner an
Invisible organ played melancholy
music. The new insanity became so
much the rage that the priests in
the churches attended by the Paris
aristocraoy began TO preach against
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